Engrish #4

Aaah, no time to write what I want to write when I have assignments to grade. Zzz.

So in the meantime I’m putting this picture here to amuse anyone who still drops by:

Behold, the “Oiliness Name Pen.”

(It should be “oil-based”, not “oiliness.” hahah)

The Impossible Star Wars Family Tree

A conversation on Whatsapp between my youngest sister and me…

Yan: At least I know that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s dad?

Me: But you don’t know who Luke Skywalker is

Yan: He is Hayden Christensen.
Very good-looking chap.

Me: Huh? Luke Skywalker is Hayden Christensen??

Yan: Technically Hayden Christensen is Luke Skywalker.
He’s the actor.

Me: He’s Anakin Skywalker.
Mark Hamill was Luke Skywalker.

Yan: Oh.
HAHAHA
#fail

Me: This goes on my blog

Yan: I sense this conversation going into your blog.
Omg I knew it

Talk about the impossible connection. Anakin = Vader = Luke’s father, Hayden = Luke, but Hayden = Vader… therefore Hayden is his own father and son? o_O

 

Engrish


Sick and tired of your nails? Would you like to remove those unsightly things from your fingers? Try Nail Remover now!

hahahahahaha

These Asian brands have such amusing translations for their product names. The one above was seen at Etude House. I didn’t notice it initially but Ee Laine pointed it out. Good thing she did. :P

Daiso also provides quite a few samples of interesting English product names and such.

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Orthopedia vs Anaesthesia

I was going to write about something… but then I forgot what it was. 8D

So, just for the heck of it, here’s a vid that Steph showed me. I totally cracked up laughing when watching it. It does require some knowledge of medical terms, but well, I enjoyed it hugely even though we had to pause a couple of times for Dr. Steph to explain the terms to me.

I’ll make it easier and explain a few things right off:

  • Orthopedic surgeons are apparently infamous stereotypes (in medical circles) for being very preoccupied with the fracture(s) and less so with the patient who has the fracture.
  • Anaestheticians are known for “obstructing” cases – being overly fussy about various details (they have to though, because you can’t just blindly give the same anaesthetic to everyone).
  • If your body temperature is 29°C, that’s practically hypothermia.
  • pH 6.8 is super acidic = badddd. Practically dead.
  • asystole = a flatline ECG. (heartbeat, nil.)

(I don’t need to explain “femur” and “CPR”, do I?)

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Oh, Computer Jokes, I’ve Missed You

JW: wat time’s flight
Me (Y): 525
JW: long time
driver will pick u [up from the airport]?
Y: yeah
JW: wats ur driver doing in kl
Y: er
JW: and dad in penang
Y: different driver
JW: what?
installer?
graphics driver
or sound card
Y: hahahaha (I actually did laugh out loud at this…)
JW: oh i miss talking to MMU girls
they understand these jokes
no matter how lame

And I’ve missed IT-based jokes. ;)

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Ouch? lol

So my youngest sister was going through my old prom gowns – and Ming’s – to decide whether any of them suited her better than the one she bought recently. She decided that she liked my very first one (which I can’t wear now without feeling mighty uncomfortable and I cannot remember how on earth I managed it back in 2004 – was I that much thinner then? D: ) and surveyed herself in the mirror for a good long while.

Me: Hmm, it fits you.
Yan: Yeah, because I’m fat.
(About two seconds of silence in which Ming and I stare at her and the implication of her words sinks into her mind.)
Yan: NOOOOOO, I DIDN’T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!
Me: …

hahahahahahahah :))

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*digs out old sketch of the dress*

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More Chat Excerpts

Perhaps I should have a new category called “Chatlogs” or “World Cup.”

All I did yesterday was catch up with the rest of my Project365 backlog – and thus am now completely up-to-date! (I think I may have overdone it a little with all the rabbits recently… but who cares? I need the cute and cuddly albeit imaginary bunnies that love me and my pencil-sketched characters. :P ) I felt like blogging but didn’t know what to blog about (nothing that wouldn’t constitute a rant or lament of some sort anyway) and didn’t feel like posting photos either because I wasn’t in the mood to comment on every photo I put up. So I went and hauled up a couple of other amusing chatlogs – both World Cup-related, naturally.

16 June
Youngest sister: i support…GERMANY!!!
BALLACKKKK
WOOHOO

Yuin: … Ballack isn’t even there

lol~

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